MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia on Friday ordered a detained Russian American journalist to be held until at least Aug. 5, pending investigation and trial, a further step in the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent and free speech. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will likely look to cast the conviction and his campaign in a new light. The former president is expected to hold a news conference at Trump Tower
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — After months of otherworldly form, Nelly Korda proved she is human after all following a horrific start to the 79th US Women’s Open on Thursday. Chasing a seventh win in eight appearances, the world No. 1 teed off at Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Country Club as the consensus tournament favorite but
Continue ReadingCNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s media allies are demanding retribution in the wake of his conviction. Following weeks of attacks targeting the historic hush money case against the former president, prominent right-wing media figures immediately flooded the public discourse Thursday with extreme and disturbing rhetoric after Trump was found guilty on 34 felony
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song “Waterloo,” are set to receive one of the most prestigious knighthoods in Sweden at a ceremony Friday. The Order of the Vasa will be handed out for the first
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The Airbus Beluga, one of the world’s strangest airplanes, now has its own airline. The odd-looking, oversized cargo plane — a favorite among planespotters around the world — has been in service for close to two decades. It mainly transports aircraft parts between Airbus’ manufacturing facilities spread throughout Europe.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met with his Chinese counterpart for more than an hour as the two countries seek to repair lines of communications between their militaries that could be critical as tensions continue to rise between them in the Indo-Pacific region. The meeting Friday
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has visited the site of a massive landslide that is estimated to have buried hundreds of villagers in the South Pacific island nation’s mountainous interior a week ago. James Marape told hundreds who gathered near the devastated Yambali village on Friday
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Un hombre armado emboscó y mató a un agente de policía de Minneapolis que pensó que esa persona necesitaba ayuda cuando respondía a reportes de disparos el jueves, parte de un tiroteo en dos lugares que dejó tres personas muertas, incluido el atacante, y al menos otras cuatro heridas, dijeron
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say they have broken up a large network that illegally helped foreigners, mostly Russians, to stay in Thailand long-term through the use of company nominees or shell companies. Police said Friday that a Russian woman who came to Thailand in 2012 operated the scheme with a Thai woman who was
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that would allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets within Russia. Orbán said in a radio interview on Friday that such proposals have Europe “inching closer to destruction.” The nationalist leader has
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The French interior minister says French authorities in New Caledonia have regained full control of their Pacific territory’s capital after two weeks of unrest that left seven people dead. Gerald Darmanin said Friday in a post on X that “a major police operation has taken place successfully” in the last area
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Caitlin Clark picked up her third technical foul of her fledgling WNBA career on Thursday as the Indiana Fever suffered their eighth loss of the season. Midway through the second quarter of Indiana’s game against the Seattle Storm at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Clark hit a long three-pointer over Storm guard
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV, MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany has joined the United States in authorizing Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying. Friday’s move is a significant policy change that comes as depleted Ukrainian troops are losing ground in the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation ticked up to an annual 2.6% in Europe in May. The new figure released on Friday is more than expected as a painful spike in consumer prices takes its time to fade away. Yet that’s unlikely to stop the European Central Bank from making
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer World shares were mixed on Friday after an official survey showed Chinese factory activity weakening in May on slowing export orders. U.S. futures were little changed and oil prices slipped ahead of an OPEC meeting this weekend. Technology-related shares saw some of the biggest declines after Nvidia, recently a
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from a hospital where he was treated after an assassination attempt. Miriam Lapunikova, the director of the hospital, said on Friday that Fico was transported to his home, where he continues to recover from the attack. Lapunikova thanked Fico in a statement
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — “This is not daredevil stuff,” says 75-year-old fine art photographer Donn Delson as we sit in a helicopter with no door, almost 2,000 feet above London. At this height, the winds are numbing even in May, yet Delson, on the outermost seat, dangles his legs out as a
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Picture this: It’s a Thursday night in Houston and thunderstorms are rolling in. Suddenly, winds roar past 100 mph. Trees snap, windows shatter and the city darkens as power flickers out. Even after it’s over, it takes days for the lights to come back on in parts of
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Well before the Manhattan jury finished deliberating on Thursday, most of President Joe Biden’s advisers concluded that a guilty verdict wouldn’t drastically alter their 2024 election strategy. But it has stoked some hopes among supporters of the president that if 12 people who focused on
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